Bilibid riot: No kill plot vs Jaybee Sebastian, BuCor says

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News

MANILA - The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) shot down speculations that a deadly riot inside the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP) on Wednesday was orchestrated to kill convicted crime lord Jaybee Sebastian, who allegedly raised funds for Senator De Lima's 2016 candidacy.

Asked if there was a latent motive behind the melee that left high-profile inmate Tony Co dead, BuCor officer-in-charge Rolando Asuncion said: "I don’t think so. It's just a plain riot, sa nakikita ko sa ngayon [based on what I see now]."

"Riots are usual occurrences in prisons na ganito ang itsura, na kulang ang pasilidad at personnel, at hindi segregated properly ang inmates," he added. [Riots are usual occurrences in prisons like this, which have a shortage of facilities and personnel, and where inmates are not properly segregated.]